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RE: Human resources - Oil, the mother root of social inequality
Do you have by any chance the costs (from installation to dismantling including energy production) connected to solar panels? I am just curious here. I could of course look for them myself, but not easy at the moment :p
I was actually thinking about that last night (and considering writingabout that).
There's a renowned CO2 footprint for anything we produce, while we also have an energy footprint for such.
What you're asking me for is the ERoEI (energy return of energy invested) solar panels have (with that term google is god giving you results)... the return is of 6 to 11 for solar panels (they give out 6 to 11 times more energy than the one that costed to make them)... Oil barrels have 6, sloping down to 3 in the next years while biofuels and synthesized oils have a 1.5.
Eolics have a much higher ERoEI. Yet, you need a place where winds are constant, and strong.
Thanks for the info! It is then definitely good enough as a local help to reduce the energy bill. It is however probably not enough to significantly contribute to the energy budget at a national level.